wicked lester we want to shout it out loud

The original picture wold be released in 2012 on Destroyer: Resurrected which we will discuss in great detail many months down the road. That was deemed to be way too violent so they toned it down and ended up with what you have at the top of the article. The cover decided for this album was actually not the first drawing. The picture was painted by artist Ken Kelly who was famous for doing drawings of Conan the Barbarian and even the jungle man himself, Tarzan. Let’s talk a little about the cover of the album. And that ride was going to take them to the Top and eventually crashing down, but that is still a little ways away. Kiss was riding high and at the top of their game. It has now gone platinum several times over. The album would go and take the band to new heights and was the very first Kiss album to be certified platinum. The album would be released a little while later on March 15, 1976.

The production started sometime in September 1975 and the bulk of the heavy lifting was complete in January 1976. A trend that would grow over future albums. The band also worked with more songwriters as well as we now have an album where there were other musicians on it than just the main band members. The raw sound of those first three albums would be gone and in return would be a highly produced album that changed their sound and some might say for the better and others don’t. Having Bob Ezrin at the boards introduced the bands to entirely new sounds as they played around with many different elements of their music to create something bigger and grander than before. Thankfully, the band was still in tact with Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, Ace Frehley and Gene Simmons. His success with Alice Cooper had garnered him some notoriety and was going to take Kiss in a whole new direction. Their success was able to land them a high-end producer in the likes of Bob Ezrin. While the band was touring the album ‘Alive!’, they started rehearsing for the new album. This time though, Kiss was only given a two album deal which really isn’t a very long contract in those times and showed that maybe the label didn’t have much faith the band would have continued success. With that new success, the band signed a brand new contract with Casablanca after the band’s manager had threatened to walk. With the success of ‘Alive!’, Kiss was saved and in turn, so was their record label Casablanca.

Wicked lester we want to shout it out loud